[GNC] gnucash-cli vs Get Quotes button

[Bruce Schuck]

On 12/13/25 15:58, Robin Chattopadhyay wrote:

> Here it is.

Thank you, but Ken sent it to me off-list yesterday. Needs some minor 
tweaks to incorporate into F::Q releases, but it is on the roadmap.

BTW - There is a way to use custom modules without having to modify the 
Quote.pm source, by setting the environment variable "FQ_LOAD_QUOTELET". 
Example somewhere in your login environment

export FQ_LOAD_QUOTELET='-defaults USBonds'

The quotes are necessary.

> Nothing notable has changed, just routine sudo apt update && sudo apt 
> upgrade.

Perl can be tricky. One can have multiple versions of Perl on a systems, 
and have customized library paths to find modules. This can create the 
issue you are experiencing. It could also be that 
"~/gnucash-files/general_ledger/general_ledger.gnucash" is NOT same the 
Gnucash data file being used when you launch the graphical application.

Bruce S

> 
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM Bruce Schuck <bschuck at asgard-systems.com 
> <mailto:bschuck at asgard-systems.com>> wrote:
> 
>        On Sun Dec 7 23:58:28 EST 2025, Robin wrote:
> 
>        > I have been using a custom price module for getting the prices of
>        > US Series EE Savings Bonds that was written by Ken Farley for a
>        > number of years.
> 
>        I'd appreciate it if you could please send that module to the
>     list, or
>        just me. Thanks.
> 
>        > When I click the Get Quotes button from within the application,
>        > prices are loaded to the Price Database.
> 
>        > But when I use the command gnucash-cli --quotes get
>        > ~/gnucash-files/general_ledger/general_ledger.gnucash, the
>        > savings bonds prices are not written to the database.
> 
>     Odd, it could be that your environment has changed? Have you made any
>     recent changes or updates?
> 
>     Bruce S.
>